Adventure is not outside man, but within, for you cannot cross the sea by simply staring at the water.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Hot Springs

Interspersed among all the geysers are hundreds of hot springs. Yellowstone has half the world's geothermal features, all the result of the 45 mile by 30 mile Yellowstone Caldera -- a volcano full of hot magma right under my feet -- which heats the water and creates the various geothermal entities, which then change based on weather, minerals, earthquakes of the area, etc. Here are some of the hot springs we saw:

One of the most popular is Morning Glory:

Here's a close-up demonstrating the clarity of the water and the intensity of the colors:

============================Nothing adventured, nothing gained!============================The older I get, the better I was!============================Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!============================I want to die young at an advanced age.============================A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore============================The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.-- Abraham LincolnAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.--G.K. ChestertonThe best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.--Vance Havner==========================

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You will go out in joyand be led forth in peace;the mountains and hillswill burst into song before you,and all the trees of the fieldwill clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:12 (New International Version)

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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